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Can I host Laravel 5.6 on DigitalOcean Droplet? Which operating system is recommended?

Posted March 21, 2018 10.4k views
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According to Laravel documentation, the server requirements are the following:
PHP >= 7.1.3
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension
Ctype PHP Extension
JSON PHP Extension

Can I deploy my Laravel 5.6 app to Digital Ocean? Which operating system would be the best to use?

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eddiezane March 21, 2018

Can I deploy my Laravel 5.6 app to Digital Ocean? Which operating system would be the best to use?

Absolutely! Which OS is totally up to you.

Take a look at our LEMP One-Click which should get you started.

If you feel like learning to do it on your own run through our Laravel Nginx tutorial.

How To Deploy a Laravel Application with Nginx on Ubuntu 16.04
by Mateusz Papiernik
Laravel is one of the most popular open-source web application frameworks written in PHP. It aims to help developers build both simple and complex applications by making frequently-used application tasks (like caching and authentication) easier. In this tutorial, we will deploy a simple Laravel application with a production environment in mind.
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emilyb April 17, 2018

Yes, you can deploy Laravel 5 to DigitalOcean. If you’re in need of step-by-step directions, I’d recommend this How-To Deploy Laravel to DigitalOcean resource, which is quite helpful!

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